ALL meanings of horrors
hor·ror
H h - noun horrors an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror. 1
- noun horrors anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war. 1
- noun horrors such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation. 1
- noun horrors a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts. 1
- noun horrors Informal. something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror. 1
- noun horrors horrors, Informal. delirium tremens. extreme depression. 1
- adjective horrors inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity. 1
- adjective horrors centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie. 1
- noun horrors Plural form of horror. 1
- noun plural horrors a fit of depression or anxiety 0
- exclamation horrors an expression of dismay, sometimes facetious 0